User blog:Semerone/old post 18

= Errors on the wiki =

These errors happened to some users (including me).

The errors happen regardless which wiki you are on, so they don't just affected users on Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia.

I for example encountered something I dubbed as "Five Nights at Loading Data from Server Error's", which happened to me about a year ago. I first encountered it on Five Nights at Candy's Emil Macko Wikia.

The error itself looks like this:



You go and edit something, but when you try to go into source mode or want to save your edit, the error message shown above appears and your text is lost if you didn't copy it and save it as a text file on your computer.

The error prevented me from saving my edits, so for the time I had this error, I could only write comments, but wasn't able to edit any articles.

Somehow it was an error related to something changed on the servers of my internet provider, so I could do nothing but to notify them and wait for them to resolve it by themselves.

Interestingly the language shown in the error message box seems to vary at random, so I once had Russian text and another time it showed the text in Hungarian, but most of the time the text was English as intended.

Anyways, feel free to post your own encounters with the daily weirdness of encountering errors on any wiki here, but please don't post them anywhere else on the wiki.

Also please put your error message screenshots into the category Dumb Errors.

I have to admit that the name Zenki chose when he made this category fits the situation quite well as encountering such an error over and over again doesn't just annoy the user (or admin for that matter), it also makes them feel dumb when they try anything to solve the problem and then find out that they can't, because it's provider or wiki backend related, or whatever that puts them out of control, so they can practically do nothing about it but notifying the ones in charge about it.

Original post by Semerone on 18:03 2017-01-05

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Oi! :D If you were looking for older comments from this board, check out the archive linked above. ;)

Original post by Zenki7 on 23:00 2017-04-22